The closing scene of Iron Man 3 features Tony disposing of the most recent Arc Reactor, throwing it off the cliff where his house used to be. It's an incredibly symbolic moment, as he's letting go ...

Even with rudimentary tools and materials, that didn’t stop Tony Stark from kicking some ... the Winter Solider loses his cybernetic arm, and the arc reactor in Iron Man’s armor is destroyed.

Whether it's Iron Man fiddling with his arc reactor or Star-Lord getting hosed down, you can almost always count on the hero of any given Marvel movie to lose his shirt -- it's practically a trope.

as well as being a nod to Howard Stark’s Arc reactor in the fictional Iron Man universe. An exploded diagram of an ARC reactor, showing the ease of accessing the vacuum vessel. No divertors are ...